Urbanizacion

English translation: Urban infrastructure

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Urbanizacion (like me you are too lazy to fiddle with ALT keys for the accent) is the process in Spain of making land ready for urban development by implementing the infrastructures, meaning drains, electricity conduits, roadway etc. Many developments are called Urbanizaciones simply because they have these infrastructures.

Thanks. I was going to add that I have translated umpteen legal documents on the development of Centros Comerciales where the urbanizacion is a key concept in the planning and construction and obviously has nothing to do with housing.

The term is used in a more general sense of housing developments - on the motorway near where I have my house in Alicante there is an exit sign for "Urbanizaciones" which refers precisely to housing developments BUT in the more technical construction and planning field it has a much more limited meaning. This is confirmed in this case by the additional context. I have been translating Spanish construction and planning documents for so many years I am absolutely certain about this.

Urbanizacion (like me you are too lazy to fiddle with ALT keys for the accent) is the process in Spain of making land ready for urban development by implementing the infrastructures, meaning drains, electricity conduits, roadway etc. Many developments are called Urbanizaciones simply because they have these infrastructures.